What are the important events that happened on December 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 5 is the 340th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 22, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,733,356,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontagon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 55 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,367 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 5 Historical Events
- 1082 –Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
- 1746 –Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
- 1766 –In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
- 1776 –At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
- 1865 –Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1941 –World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
- 1983 –Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
- 1983 –ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
- 2007 –Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1839 –George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
- 1867 –Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman (d. 1935)
- 1898 –Grace Moore, American soprano (d. 1947)
- 1938 –J.D. McDuffie, American racecar driver (d. 1991)
- 1961 –Sophia Vossou, Greek singer
- 1962 –Fred Rutten, Dutch footballer and football-manager
- 1962 –José Cura, Argentine tenor
- 1969 –Morgan J. Freeman, American film director
- 1978 –Pachrapa Chaichua, Thai actress
- 1981 –Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress
Who died on December 5?
- 1355 –John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
- 1663 –Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
- 1758 –Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
- 1819 –Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
- 1926 –Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
- 1951 –Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
- 1961 –Emil Fuchs, German-born American attorney and baseball team owner (b. 1878)
- 1973 –Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1892)
- 2008 –Patriarch Alexy II of Russia, Russian religious figure (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922)
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